Galium pusillum, L.

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1976, Flora Europaea. Volume 4. Plantaginaceae to Compositae (and Rubiaceae), Cambridge University Press : 33

115. G. pusillum L. , Sp. Pl. 106 (1753) .

Densely caespitose, with many stems, usually glabrous and shining (rarely more or less hairy), with or without stolons. Stems (3-)4-8(-12) cm, stiff; middle internodes short, up to as long as the leaves. Leaves 4-10(-13)xO-3~0-9(-l-2) mm, linear to acicular, almost always more than 10 times as long as wide, coriaceous, smooth (rarely scabridulous or hairy); margin more or less flat, thickened; midrib thickened, occupying of the width of the leaf; hyaline apex 0-5-0-9 mm. Inflorescence rather few-flowered, corymbose. Corolla 2-3 mm in diameter, white or yellowish; lobes acute. Fruit 1-1-5 mm, more or less smooth, dull. 2/z = 22, 88. Mountain rocks', calcicele. • S.E. France, N. W. Italy. Galt.

Very variable. G. hypnoides Vili. , Hist. Pl. Dauph. 2: 323 (1787) and G. jussiei Vili. , Prosp. Pl. Dauph. 20 (1779), which belong here, may deserve the rank of subspecies. When there is contact with 112, intermediates may be found.